Stuck 7s
Safety Management Systems for Aviation Practitioners: Real-World Lessons
Hollinger, Kent. Reston, Virginia, U.S.: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2013. 221 pp. Figures, tables, references, appendixes, index. Hardcover.
Kent Hollinger’s account of safety management systems (SMS) is presented in an unusual and possibly unique format. It approximates a classroom experience of the kind led by Hollinger on behalf of The MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit company that operates research and development centers funded by the U.S. government.
As in an actual interactive teaching situation, the text incorporates dialogue involving Hollinger and the students in one of MITRE’s five-day SMS classes.
“This book is specifically intended to avoid an academic approach,” the author says. It is written for “practitioners, those people on the front lines who will benefit from, and interact with, SMS every day. SMS principles are introd…
